Castelul Peles, Sinaia | Marius Popa

Who still believes in winter myths? Snow rewrites Peleș Castle each season, sanding color down to bone and geometry. The castle sits in the Carpathians like a jeweled pocket watch forgotten in the cold, still ticking, still precise, unmoved by modern haste. This is Romania without decoration or apology, where tourism slows its breath and the mountains dictate the terms of attention. King Carol I did not merely commission a residence here; he staged a declaration. Completed in 1883, Peleș became